"Let no freedom be allowed to novelty, because it is not fitting that any addition should be made to antiquity. Let not the clear faith and belief of our forefathers be fouled by any muddy admixture."
-- Pope Sixtus III

—Victim 1: Sandusky
was accused of fondling him and performing oral sex on him multiple
times, in his home and State College hotels. The boy was 11-15 years old
at the time. Sandusky was barred from his central Pennsylvania high
school in 2009 after the boy's mother alerted school officials,
triggering the investigation that produced charges. Sandusky was found
guilty of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse (two counts), indecent assault, unlawful contact with minor, corruption of minors, endangering a child's welfare.

—Victim
2: A boy of about 10 that a graduate assistant, Mike McQueary, has said
he saw being attacked by Sandusky in the team showers in February 2001.
Investigators have not been able to determine the boy's identity.
McQueary reported what he saw to head coach Joe Paterno, and Paterno's
handling of it contributed to the university's decision to fire him
shortly after Sandusky was arrested in November. Sandusky was found
guilty of indecent assault, unlawful contact with minor, corruption of
minors, endangering a child's welfare. He was acquitted of involuntary
deviate sexual intercourse.

—Victim 3: Sandusky was accused of
hugging him in the shower and fondling him between July 1999 and
December 2001, at Sandusky's home and in team showers. The boy was
12-14. Sandusky was found guilty of indecent assault, unlawful contact
with minor, corruption of minors, endangering a child's welfare.

—Victim
4: Prosecutors said more than 50 incidents occurred between 1996 and
2000, at the Sandusky home, hotels and university facilities while the
boy was 12-17. He also traveled with the Sandusky family to bowl games
in Texas and Florida. Sandusky was convicted of involuntary deviate
sexual intercourse, indecent assault, unlawful contact with minor,
corruption of minors, endangering a child's welfare.

—Victim 5:
Sandusky put his hand on the boy's leg while in a car, they showered
together and he placed the boy's hand on his genitals, according to his
testimony in court. The alleged incident occurred in August 2001, while
the boy was 12 or 13. Sandusky was convicted of unlawful contact with
minor, corruption of minors, endangering a child's welfare. He was
acquitted of indecent assault.

—Victim
6: While showering together in May 1998, he testified that Sandusky
grabbed him and said, "I'm going to squeeze your guts out" and that the
ex-coach said he was the "tickle monster." The boy's mother complained
when he came home with wet hair, prompting a police investigation at the
time that did not result in charges. The boy was 11. Sandusky was found
guilty of unlawful contact with minor, corruption of minors,
endangering a child's welfare. He was acquitted of indecent assault,

—Victim
7: They showered together and Sandusky bear hugged him in 1995-96, and
more than once he put his hands down the waistband of the boy's pants,
according to the grand jury. Sandusky did not touch his genitals, the
jury said. The boy was 9-11. Sandusky was found guilty of attempted
indecent assault, corruption of minors, endangering a child's welfare.

—Victim
8: Boy of about 11 to 13, seen in late November 2000 by a university
janitor allegedly being subjected to sexual abuse by Sandusky in the
team showers. The janitor now has dementia and is not available to
testify, but a co-worker testified to what the janitor told him. The boy
has not been identified by investigators. Sandusky was convicted of
involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, indecent assault, unlawful
contact with minor, corruption of minors, endangering a child's welfare.

—Victim
9: Now 18, he testified that he was sexually abused by Sandusky at the
Sandusky home where he spent more than a hundred nights in a room in the
basement that had a waterbed. He testified he was subject to oral then
anal sex and screamed for help. He was also abused in a State College
hotel and other locations between July 2005 and December 2008, according
to prosecutors. He was 12-15 at the time. Sandusky was convicted of
involuntary deviate sexual intercourse (two counts), indecent assault,
unlawful contact with a minor, corruption of minors, endangering a
child's welfare.

—Victim 10:
Boy was subjected to sexual abuse between September 1997 and July 1999
at the Sandusky home and car and at an area pool. He testified Sandusky
said he'd never see his family again if he said anything. The boy was
11. Sandusky was convicted of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse
(two counts), indecent assault, unlawful contact with minor, corruption
of minors, endangering a child's welfare.

Friday, June 22, 2012

World stock markets
fell Friday as gloomy economic reports from the world's two biggest
economies heightened fears of a sharper global downturn. In Europe,
leaders were set to weigh options for fixing the continent's debt crisis.

The leaders of Germany,
France, Italy and Spain are gathering in Rome on Friday to try to
hammer out proposals for easing the widening financial crisis spreading
across the 17-member euro currency union...

Due to time constraints, we now move to further action.

A further sign of weakness in the world's No. 1
economy came from the Philadelphia branch of the Federal Reserve, which
issued a report showing that manufacturing in the northeast had
experienced a sharp decrease due to a steep fall in company orders.

Appetite
for financial assets such as stocks was also dented by the results of a
monthly HSBC survey, which showed that manufacturing in China has continued to contract. China's growth has been a pillar of the global economy in recent years, so its slowdown has been of particular concern to investors.

According to the Slave Chinese Department of Labor Statistics, the slaves are dying at a higher than expected rate.

"With signs of weakness in the US economy, the persistence of the eurozone debt crisis and the threat of a hardlanding in China
looming, the prospect of a synchronized economic slowdown is real,"
analysts at DBS Bank Ltd. in Singapore said in a market commentary.

Sentiment
was also shaken after Moody's Investors Service lowered the credit
ratings of 15 major banks, including Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and
Goldman Sachs, saying their long-term prospects for profitability and
growth are shrinking...

FILE - In this March 14, 2012
file photo, Miss Chugiak-Eagle River Debbe Ebben poses for a photo in
Town Square Park in Anchorage, Alaska. Alaska’s bald beauty queen is
heading to a bigger stage. Ebben, who shaved her head in March to raise
money for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, and who’s hair is now tomboy
length, was chosen over the weekend as Miss Alaska and will compete for
the 2013 Miss America title. (AP Photo/Dan Joling, file)

Just three months ago, Debbe Ebben had no hair. On Saturday night, she was crowned Miss Alaska.

Ebben
shaved her head in March to raise more than $4,000 for the St.
Baldrick's Foundation, which donates money for childhood cancer
research. She said she did it to let children who lost their hair
because of cancer treatments know that it was OK to be bald.

Choosing her words carefully, she said losing one's hair should be special — whether it's voluntary or not.

"I
wanted to put meaning and emotion behind it, and let them know why I'm
doing it — for the kids," she said. "I'm not shaving it to get
attention. I'm not shaving it for publicity. I'm not shaving it because
it's a really easy hairstyle to go with. I'm shaving it for them."

Ebben's
brown hair had grown back to a pixie cut by the time she became the
state's top beauty queen over the weekend, but she says she will likely
keep her hair short when she represents Alaska at the Miss America pageant in January 2013.

"I'll let it do its thing for a while," she said, laughing. "I'll consult the hair stylist before I go down."

Ebben was the reigning Miss Chugiak-Eagle River when she picked St. Baldrick's for the public service project that is required of all Miss Alaska pageant contestants. Baldrick's gets its name from a combination of the words "bald" and "St. Patrick."

The organization was founded by three insurance executives who turned a
St. Patrick's Day party into a head-shaving event to help children with
cancer.

Ebben said she got a feel of what the children go through.

"Like
children who are fighting cancer, losing my hair was a really emotional
experience, and something I hope they only have to go through once in
their life," she said.

As she approached the Miss Alaska pageant,
she had to decide whether to keep the look. Her drastic haircut had been
done in honor of a child, and she decided to let grow back her hair, so
that the haircut wouldn't be mistaken for a gimmick.

"I don't want to be branded as the 'bald beauty queen,'" she said.

She's had two haircuts since March, and her hair is two inches at its longest.

In
the upcoming year, she said, she plans to work with St. Baldrick's and
Headbands of Hope, which donates a spandex headband to a sick child and
$1 to St. Baldrick's for every headband it sells.

Bonnie Faulk,
director of the Miss Alaska Scholarship Foundation, calls Ebben the
epitome of the standards and values of the program.

"We are elated
to have this young woman serve us," Faulk said. "She has worked harder
than many, many, many contestants in many years."

Ebben said her road to Miss Alaska has "been a long journey."

"This was my 16th pageant and it was more of, 'The moment had finally come.' And I was really happy it had come," she said.

In
lieu of entry fees, contestants raise money for the Children's Miracle
Network, the charity of the Miss America Pageant. Ebben was the
pageant's top fundraiser this year, raising nearly $1,500 through a
community yard sale in north Anchorage.

Scholarships from the pageant, in turn, paid for Ebben's college education.

"She's
out there. She's the real deal," Faulk said, who added that Ebben loves
children and charitable events. "She's what our program is about."

About Me

First of all, the word is SEX, not GENDER. If you are ever tempted to use the word GENDER, don't. The word is SEX! SEX! SEX! SEX! For example: "My sex is male." is correct.
"My gender is male." means nothing. Look it up.
What kind of sick neo-Puritan nonsense is this? Idiot left-fascists, get your blood-soaked paws off the English language. Hence I am choosing "male" under protest.